[Vegmisc] Vegan Multi-Vitamins

[Vincent Guihan]

>Re B12: Doesn't Joanne use nutritional yeast in her uncheese recipes? Does 
>she say anything >about nutritional yeast as a source of B12?

Not to mention, although I don't want to suggest that anyone shouldn't take 
b12 deficiency very seriously, there were vegans who managed to live their 
lives before b12-fortified products and vitamins were available on the 
market.

Where they got their b12 in a sustainable way is a good question -- possibly 
unwashed vegetables and fermented foods (both of which might have been 
sources for the bacteria that provides b12), neither of which would be good 
sources in a contemporary diet (since we all wash our vegetables carefully 
and the fermentation of most foods is a much more sterile process).

Vegans /should/ supplement since it's easy to do so.  Most soymilks, 
nutritional yeast, soy meat analogues, Total breakfast cereal, etc., are all 
fortified with b12.  Unless someone has problems with b12 absorption (which 
usually has to be addressed with b12 injections), there's no real need to 
take a vitamin just for b12.